Improvement in canal-boats



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Improvement in Canal Boats.

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WILLIAM HENRY NEWELL, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANAL-BOATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,039, dated January23, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Canal-Boat, invented byWILLIAM HENRY N EW'ELL, of Jersey City Heights, in the county 7 ofHudson, and State of New Jersey.

Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my improved canal-boat. Fig. 2is a vertical section of the same on the line a 0, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new fender attachment for canal-boats,whereby the lateral disturbance of the water is prevented, and unduefriction during the propulsion of the boat avoided. It consists inhinging fenders to the sides or at the ends of the boat, so that they.will protect the propeller or wheel, and tend to prevent the disturbedwater from reaching the banks. It also consists in the application toside fenders of extension pieces, as hereinafter more fully described.

A in the drawing, represents a canal-boat or vessel of suitable size andshape. To its sides, or to frame b, projecting therefrom, are hinged ata a the inner ends of double fenders B B, which extend forward andbackward of the propelling-wheels G, as shown, and are immersed to asufficient depth to prevent the water disturbed by the propeller orwheels G, from reaching the banks of the canal in a disturbed state. Thefenders may, on their hinges, be swung out or in more or less, accordingto the amount of water acted on by the propeller and depth of draft. Toone or both the ends of the fender, are or may be appliedextensionfenders D D, which permit the proper lengthening or shorteningof the main pieces. Instead of extension sections D, there may be hingedsections E at the ends of the fender, which may be folded against themain fenders, when to be carried out of the Way. These hinged end piecesmay also be used as rudders if desired. Canal-boats having sternpropellers may have fenders hinged only to their.

stems and bows, or either, and none at the sides. Where the fenders arecaused to meet forward of the boat, they will increase the speed bycutting through the water with less friction.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent l. The hinged fenders B B applied to boat A, and 011the outside of wheels 0 O, as and for the purpose described.

2. The adjustable extensions D D applied to the fenders of boats, as andfor the purpose set forth.

3. The hinged end sections E E applied to the fenders, as and for thepurposes set forth.

W. H. NEWELL.

Witnesses T. B. MOSHER, GEO. W. MABEE.

